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<a href="B01C050.html"><font size=+2 color=red>50</font></a>
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<td class="v">50:1</td>
<td>And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.</td>
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<td class="v">50:2</td>
<td>And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">50:3</td>
<td>And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.</td>
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<td class="v">50:4</td>
<td>And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">50:5</td>
<td>My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.</td>
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<td class="v">50:6</td>
<td>And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.</td>
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<td class="v">50:7</td>
<td>And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,</td>
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<td class="v">50:8</td>
<td>And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.</td>
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<td class="v">50:9</td>
<td>And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.</td>
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<td class="v">50:10</td>
<td>And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.</td>
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<td class="v">50:11</td>
<td>And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.</td>
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<td class="v">50:12</td>
<td>And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:</td>
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<td class="v">50:13</td>
<td>For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.</td>
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<td class="v">50:14</td>
<td>And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.</td>
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<td class="v">50:15</td>
<td>And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.</td>
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<td class="v">50:16</td>
<td>And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">50:17</td>
<td>So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.</td>
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<td class="v">50:18</td>
<td>And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.</td>
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<td class="v">50:19</td>
<td>And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?</td>
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<td class="v">50:20</td>
<td>But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.</td>
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<td class="v">50:21</td>
<td>Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.</td>
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<td class="v">50:22</td>
<td>And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.</td>
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<td class="v">50:23</td>
<td>And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.</td>
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<td class="v">50:24</td>
<td>And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.</td>
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<td class="v">50:25</td>
<td>And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.</td>
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<td class="v">50:26</td>
<td>So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.</td>
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